The complete three show run at the Centrum, Worcester, Massachusetts from April 7th, 8th and 9th Limited edition 6CD Box set with fully restored and remastered audio from the original WCUW-FM broadcasts. Plenty of energy with intense flourishes throughout. Jerry was ON, smiling and soulful. A loose sequential feel across the three nights demanding an […]
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The enthusiasm of singers who perform pop-up opera is great – but is there any point to it, asks Rupert Christiansen. Opera’s resilience is nowhere more evident that in its current habit of popping up in pub theatres, abandoned warehouses and back gardens, staged and performed by people doing it for love rather than the […]
Q: How, if at all, might a ‘latent’ bassist benefit from being an accomplished guitarist first and foremost? I don’t know what a latent bassist is. If you are a bass player I think it’s important to have a knowledge of other instruments — guitar, keyboards, drums — so that you understand how they all […]
For composers from Stockhausen to Skelton, electronic music has provided an opportunity to explore the emotional interior of exterior sounds, argues Philip Clark Continues HERE
Blue Note’s series of reissues remastered by the legendary recording engineer Rudy Van Gelder continues to come hot and heavy, although how they choose which titles to include is something of a puzzle. Some of the albums have been done to death already, while on rarer occasions we get something that has until now […]
by Mark Edward Nero Updated February 26, 2018 Soul music is a combination of R&B (Rhythm and Blues) and gospel music and began in the late 1950s in the United States. While Soul has a lot in common with R&B, its differences include its use of gospel-music devices, its greater emphasis on vocalists, and its merging […]
Davis’s new Fidelio The New Year brings a sea-change to the London Symphony Orchestra as workaholic Valery Gergiev takes over from Sir Colin Davis as principal conductor, his senior colleague becoming its president. (The Philharmonia and London Philharmonic Orchestras have also announced new appointments: Esa-Pekka Salonen and Vladimir Jurowski.) Happily, Sir Colin is to make […]
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In 1971, Atlantic Records released a pair of Dusty Springfield singles produced by the legendary songwriter/producer Jeff Barry (one-time songwriting and romantic partner of Ellie Greenwich, and author of too many hits to name): “Haunted”/”Nothing Is Forever” and “I Believe In You”/”Someone Who Cares.” A restless Dusty, freshly relocat- ing to America from […]
We are told ….. This powerful anthology starts with Bowie’s Tokyo broadcast of his 1990 Sound + Vision performance. Bowie’s 1990 Sound + Vision tour was billed as a greatest hits tour. He intended this to be a live swansong for his catalogue of old favourites, after which Bowie declared that they would disappear from […]
Selection of work by one of the only household names in jazz. Covers his work from the late 40s through to the mid-50s when Brubeck was one of the most visible musicians in jazz Dave Brubeck has long served as proof that creative jazz and popular success can go together. Although critics who had championed […]
Ivan Hewitt writes: It’s apt that Wagner and Verdi were born in the same year. They are romantic opera’s two great antipodes, united in stature, but divided in almost everything else. They embody two completely different outlooks on life and art, which are rooted in the cultures of their respective nations. That’s why every German […]
“The same family that spearheaded the rebellion against the French in Syria’s Druze Mountain after World War I also produced two of the most renowned Arab musical artists of this century. Farid al-Atrash and his sister Amal, along with their brother Fouad, grew up in the religious minority clan of their parents, Princess Alia and […]
When Columbia issued the first of the five volumes in Bessie Smith’s complete recordings series in 1991 — as a logical follow-up to 1990’s wildly successful Robert Johnson: The Complete Recordings box — they were simply hoping for another hit. As the Smith series continued through to its conclusion in 1996, each volume was […]
The opportunity presented itself in November to attend a performance by blues artist Mose Allison at a jazz club in the Detroit area. This was my first time seeing him perform live, although I had been familiar with his music since youth. I have just recently become reanimated by his music, which has always made […]
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WLIR’s Living Room Studio Broadcast, Glen Cove, Long Island, New York, September 14, 1976 The Band Roger McGuinn (guitar, vocals) James Q. Smith (guitar, vocals) Bruce Barlow (bass, vocals) Lance Dickerson (drums) 01 Up To Me02 Take Me Away03 Dreamland04 She Don’t Care About Time05 Mr Tambourine Man06 Friend07 Hickory Wind08 Bag Full […]
Dan Marsciano / ThoughtCo write: The power metal genre as a whole really took off in the late ’80s with help from bands such as Helloween and Gamma Ray. The ’90s continued this momentum, thanks to Iced Earth, Blind Guardian, Hammerfall, and Dragonforce. Metal fans became infatuated with the speedy solos and soaring vocals, along […]
Doug Sahm’s first solo record was something of a coming out party, a big budget affair that let the world know what the insiders already knew: that Doug Sahm was a quintessentially American musical visionary. After The Sir Douglas Quintet concluded its contract with Smash/Mercury, Jerry Wexler convinced Sahm to sign with Atlantic and brought […]
Glen Matlock, the former Sex Pistols bassist, recalls family holidays at Butlins, being shouted at by Iggy Pop on a road tour and swanning around in kimonos in Japan. Interview by York Membery How often do you travel? My life at the moment seems to be one long series of busman’s holidays. This year I’ve […]
Two incredible quality radio broadcast recordings from the great Jeff Buckley. His love for performing covers from an incredibly diverse range of artists and styles has been well documented and throughout the years those fortunate enough to catch him live may have heard him perform an eclectic selection of covers from a range of artists […]
Peter Quantrill writes …. There are strong arguments for opening out the themes of the Passion by means not of a staging transplanted from church to opera house, as has been attempted in recent years, but through movement. In this choreographed Passion there are two discrete but overlapping layers of action. The musicians concentrate on […]
Recorded just as the band were hitting the height of their fame in 1981, this is a high quality FM radio broadcast from WMMR FM. Their classic debut album, Beauty And The Beat, had been released just a few months prior, and “We Got The Beat” was the radio hit of the summer. This legendary […]